MY saturday
Yes, it is still Sunday, but it is MY Saturday, since I work the normal ones. Since a lovely breakfast at the chocolate factory and the seeing-off of Nat's folks after a week of visiting, I have spent this amazing, perfect-weather day camped out on the futon in front of the t.v....besides some watering of the lawn and some minor cookage. Besides the world cup, the conclusion of which made me very happy, I have been trapped by a succession of "real pirate" escapades on the discovery channel, travel narratives, cooking shows, a bit of hugh hefner's girlfriends, some log cabin building by cbs and that zany, annoying-as-hell-ty-pennigton...and, finally, a pea battle by the iron chefs. What is my Saturday coming to? Who am I? I hate t.v....because I am an addict. I am addicted to catchy announcer voices, pretty faces, and tedious, complicated plots. When I don't have a t.v. at my mind-numbing disposal, I have to keep busy in other ways. My t.v.-less Saturdays are filled with productive time-filling activities - balanced checkbooks, completed knitting projects, healthy upper arms, weeded gardens. With a t.v. I try to finish all those projects in time for the new Gilmore Girls, the first Texan Ranch House Episode, and my guilty Simple Life obsessions. Heck, maybe it makes me more efficient in the long run, but I sure feel like a guilty, non-progressive American tonight. Hand me a bud and some cheetos, baby. And check what's next on the netflix...
Come, to the non-progressive darkside ;)
Been forever since we talked- hope all is well.
Posted by: Ariel | July 9, 2006 11:49 PM
After hosting friends for dinner tonight (with port and chocolate for dessert) … I couldn't quite muster the focus to read, but I wasn't quite ready for sleep ... so I, too, fell into one of the real life pirate shows. Mine was centered on women pirates (Ann Bonnie and Mary Reed, to be exact. Did you catch that one?). At least I can feel somewhat progressive with my TV watching :-) Now that they have transitioned to "Valley Forge," my focus has shifted, once again ... this time to the internet, yet another venue of non-productivity!
Posted by: Gail | July 10, 2006 02:10 AM
I DID catch a bit of the women..and the legend of Captain Morgan his bad self. I was reading that folks who spend even an hour a day on the internet are prone to higher rates of depression, loneliness, and anti-social tendencies...but surely it must be better than television!
Posted by: Erin | July 10, 2006 02:57 PM